Jason West's profile
What I do
My research to date has included the study of plant gas exchange and water relations, fine root dynamics, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, and soil C and N cycling. I am currently engaged in extending site-based research to larger scales through the spatial modeling of plant stable isotope ratios. These modeling efforts produce isotope landscapes, or “isoscapes” as a way to understand large scale ecological patterns and processes, and have the capacity also to inform commercial or forensic efforts (see the Isoscapes page for more information on our projects).
Click here for information on Isoscapes2008!
Click here for a New York Times article on the forensics work.
Click here for my CV (updated January 2008).
Affiliations
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- Position
- Research Assistant Professor
- Company
- University of Utah
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Interests
I am interested in improving our understanding of terrestrial ecosystem function at many spatial and temporal scales. Because plants are the major producers of the terrestrial world, understanding the ecological interactions between plants and other ecosystem components leads to a greater understanding of such important biospheric processes as element cycles and energy flows.
ecology, ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, nutrient cycling, stable isotopes, geographic information systems
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Publications
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Dijkstra F, West J, Hobbie S, Reich P, Trost J. PLANT DIVERSITY, CO2, AND N INFLUENCE INORGANIC AND ORGANIC N LEACHING IN GRASSLANDS Ecology (2) (2007) doi: 10.1890/06-0733
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West J, Ehleringer J, Cerling T. Geography and Vintage Predicted by a Novel GIS Model of Wine δ18O J. Agric. Food Chem. (17) , 7075 - 7083 (2007) doi: 10.1021/jf071211r
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Reich P, Hobbie S, Lee T, Ellsworth D, West J, Tilman D, Knops J, Naeem S, Trost J. Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2 Nature (7086) , 922 - 925 (2006) doi: 10.1038/nature04486
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WEST J, BOWEN G, CERLING T, EHLERINGER J. Stable isotopes as one of nature's ecological recorders Trends in Ecology & Evolution (7) , 408 - 414 (2006) doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.04.002
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WEST J, HOBBIE S, REICH P. Effects of plant species diversity, atmospheric [CO2], and N addition on gross rates of inorganic N release from soil organic matter Global Change Biol (8) , 1400 - 1408 (2006) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01177.x
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